25th October 2014 / Destinations, Europe, Greece, On the road / 7 comments

I have been in Athens since late last Sunday night to attend the TBEX (Travel Blogger Exchange) conference happening from October 23 to 25. I’m staying in an AirBnB apartment 10 minutes walk from the […]

21st October 2014 / Destinations, Europe, On the road, Spain / 3 comments

We arrived in Málaga early last Wednesday afternoon from Capileira, and started peeling off layers and switching back to more summery clothes to enjoy the 25C sunny weather of the coast! Making the most of […]

18th October 2014 / Destinations, Europe, On the road, Spain / 1 comment

Last Sunday we rode the bus from Granada to Capileira, a small town of 600 in the Alpujarras mountains. It rained the whole two hours and a half, as the bus negotiated increasingly tighter curves […]

17th October 2014 / Destinations, Europe, On the road, Spain / 0 comments

A three hour bus ride last Thursday (October 9) brought us to Granada, home of the world-famous Alhambra. The Alhambra is to Spain what the Taj Mahal is to India. With its location at 738 […]

12th October 2014 / Destinations, Europe, On the road, Spain / 2 comments

(Updated: January 2, 2019.) Are 2 days in Seville enough? The short answer is “no”. But if 2 days in Seville are all you’ve got, you can definitely see the highlights if you follow the […]

7th October 2014 / Destinations, Europe, On the road, Spain / 3 comments

My friend and I finally arrived in Cadiz Thursday night after flying overnight from Montreal to Malaga (via Paris) and taking a 4-hour bus trip to Cadiz. Although we were originally scheduled to spend our […]

11th June 2014 / Belgium, Destinations, Europe, On the road / 3 comments

My last day in Europe was spent in Ghent, an easy day trip from Brussels (50 minutes by train). With 250,000 people, Ghent is the second largest city in Belgium by population, but doesn’t feature […]